Rail-joint.



G. W. REED.

6, 1913. 1,067,062. Patented July 8,1913.

UNTTE 1 GEORGE W. REED, OF BRONSON, TEXAS.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 26, 1913.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Rain), a citizen of the United States, residing at Bronson, in the county of Sabine and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in RailJoints, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in rail joints, and resides in the corn struction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following description, and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing there has been illustrated a simple and approved reduction of my improvement to practice, and in the said drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating two rails connected by my im proved joint, Fig. 2 is a central transverse sectional view through the same, 3 is a perspective view of one of the joint sections, and Fig. 4 is a similar view ofone of the rail ends.

Referring now to the drawing in detail,

R-It designate the rails which are to be secured by my improved joint. The rails are of the ordinary construction, except that one of the rails has the lower portion of its web and its base flange terminate a short distance beyond the end of the rail.

The joint includes a pair of chair me1n hers each of which is designated by the numeral 1. Each of the chair members e1nbodies a base plate 2 which has its outer longitudinal edge formed with an inturned angular overlying plate or flange 3, the said plate having its inner longitudinal edge arranged in a plane with the inner longitudinal edge of the plate 2, but the said flange 3 terminates a distance from the said inner longitudinal edge of the plate 2 equaling approximately one-half of the thickness of the webs of the rails R. Integrally formed with both the plates 2 and 3 of the chairs and arranged medially thereof and extending in a transverse direction or in a plane parallel with the end edges of the plates, is a reinforcing block 4:- The block is formed upon the underface of the plate 3 and the upper face of the plate 2, and has itsupper Patented July 8, 1913.

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edge terminating in a horizontal shoulder 6, which extends from the upper portion of the inner edge of the overlying angular plate or flange 3. if

The chairs 1 are provided with a plurality of openings 7 for the reception of securing elements in the nature of the ordinary spikes, and the said openings may be so arranged as to contact with the longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails.

In assembling the rails upon the chairs, the base flanges of the said rails are arranged within the passages of the chair members provided between the plates 2 and 3, and the shoulders S provided by the extensions of the webs of the rails rest upon the shoulders 6 of the reinforcing blocks lof the chair members. In this connection it may be well to state that the extending portions of the rail webs and heads from the base flanges of the said rails and which provide the shoulders S are equal to approximately one-half of the length of the shoulders 6 of the block 4. After the chair members have been assembled upon the rails, the spikes are passed through the openings 7 of the chairs and a simple but thoroughly effective rail joint is provided.

Having thus described the invention,what I claim as new is:

In a rail joint, two co-acting rails having their base flanges and the lower portion of their webs terminating a distance from the ends of the rails, a pair of chair members, each chair member including a base having its outer longitudinal edge provided with an angularly arranged plate which overlies the base, but which terminates a distance from the base equaling approximately one half of the thickness of the webs of the rails, each of the chair members being centrally provided with an integrally formed reinforcing block which has its inner vertical face arranged in a plane with the inner longitudinal edge of the base plate and which has its top horizontally straightto provide a shoulder, the chairs adapted to be arranged upon the opposite sides of the rails after the rails have been brought into engagement to permitof the base flanges of the rails being received Within the pockets In testimony whereof I affix my signature of the chairs arranged at the opposite sides in presence of two witnesses.

of the reinforcing block and to permit of 1 the shoulders provided hy the web exten- GEORGE REED sions of the rails resting upon the shoulders provided by the reinforcing blocks, and t means for securing the chairs to the ties. I

\Vitnesses TIMIE MODANIEL, R. L. JONES.

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